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Psystar founders claim they cracked OS X, hackintosh scene is 'all wrong'
Okay, so we're reading this puff piece in the Miami New Times about would-be Mac cloner Psystar, and while we're somewhat willing to dismiss author Tim Elfrink's various mischaracterizations of the law and what Psystar is actually doing as just laziness and / or ignorance, there's a quote here from Psystar founder Rudy Pedraza that simply leaps off the page: Rudy scoffs at the idea he borrowed from the Hackintosh scene. "The first thing you have to do is unlearn everything you've read online about how to make this work," Rudy says, "because it's all wrong." Really? Because we think there's a very large, very active hacking community out there that would disagree with you, Rudy. P.S.- A full list of every other mistake in this piece after the break. [Thanks, Chris]
The Hidden Message to OSx86 Trawlers
In the MacBook Pro's version of OSx86, in /System/Library/Extensions lies a little message in a kernel extension for would-be readers:<key>_name</key><string>Dont Steal Mac OS X[...]<string>Copyright (c) 2006 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.<string>The purpose of this Apple software is to protect Apple copyrightedmaterials from unauthorized copying and use. You may not copy, modify,reverse engineer, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense,transfer or redistribute this file, in whole or in part. If you haveobtained a copy of this Apple software and do not have a valid licensefrom Apple Computer to use it, please immediately destroy or delete itfrom your computer.Given this message, I have a hunch that perhaps Steve has encouraged his team to implement other forms of copy protection into the production copies of OSx86, perhaps in the form of watermarking. Also, I haven't seen any mention of this in the Intel iMac's version of OSx86. Feel free to pontificate in the comments. Is this a warning that perhaps there are stronger measures coming to find users running OSx86 on non-Apple hardware?[via OSx86 Project]
